Manila: Men shot and left to bleed out on busy streets, mutilated corpses dumped in vacant lots. The bodies are piling up as President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war brings terror to Filipino slums. Hundreds of people have died since Duterte won a landslide election in May, promising to rid societyRead More

Washington: In his strongest denunciation of Donald Trump yet, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the Republican presidential nominee is “unfit to serve as president” and asked the Republican leaders to withdraw their support for his candidacy over his rhetoric. “I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serveRead More

Washington: Continued instability in Pakistan could impact safety of its nuclear weapons and materials, a latest US Congressional report has said as it described the sale of two nuclear reactors by China to Pakistan a violation of the NSG guidelines. “While US and Pakistani officials continue to express confidence inRead More

United Nations, United States: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen must do more to address “very serious concerns” about the killing of children, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday, as he weighs whether to return the alliance to a blacklist of child rights violators. Ban reported to the Security CouncilRead More

London: Coalition warplanes bombed one of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s palaces which was being used as a training base by the Islamic State jihadist group, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said Wednesday. The palace in the IS stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq was attacked in a joint operation byRead More

Lagos, Nigeria: The Islamic State group’s newspaper identifies a new leader of the group’s West Africa Province, popularly known as Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists, who promises not to attack mosques or markets used by Muslims. The Arabic-language newspaper al-Nabaa on Wednesday identified Abu Musab al-Barnawi as the new “Wali,” aRead More

Washington: Vice President Joe Biden has officiated a gay wedding, a first for the early proponent of same-sex marriage. Biden presided over the union of Joe Mahshie and Brian Mosteller, both longtime White House aides. The White House says the couple asked Biden to officiate. Biden has never officiated aRead More

Kathmandu: Nepal Maoist chief Prachanda on Tuesday filed his nomination for the election to the post of prime minister on Wednesday that could bring political stability to the country. Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba proposed the 61-year-old CPN-Maoist Centre president as the candidate for new Prime Minister, while MaoistRead More

Kathmandu: The leader of Nepal’s Maoist party appeared certain to be the next prime minister after the deadline for nominations expired on Tuesday with only his name on the ballot. Lawmakers in the Himalayan nation are due to elect a new prime minister on Wednesday after K.P. Sharma Oli resignedRead More

Dhaka: Bangladesh police offered a reward on Tuesday for two top Islamists accused of spearheading the rise of extremism in the country, which is reeling from a mass killing at a Dhaka cafe. Police announced a two million taka ($25,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of Canadian citizenRead More